Turkey will provide around $5 billion in loans for the reconstruction of Iraq, the foreign minister said on Sunday. “We made the biggest commitment to Iraq,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a meeting organized by the Beyoglu Municipality in Istanbul. “We will provide $5 billion credit,” Cavusoglu...

Delegations from Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad left the Gaza Strip for Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian officials.  Led by group leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas delegation crossed the Rafah border crossing into Egyptian territory, a Palestinian security...

U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who at times has had a spiky relationship with the Democratic Party, on Saturday added another liberal voice to a burgeoning field of candidates seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Gabbard, 37, officially launched her...

Nayib Bukele is favorite to win when voters head to the polls in El Salvador on Sunday to elect a new president they hope will lead them away from gang violence, widespread poverty and end three decades of the two-party rule in the country. The 37-year-old former mayor of the capital San...

China's human rights violations against Turkic Uyghur minority in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region -- also referred to as East Turkestan --have been protested across the Chinese Consulates worldwide. The Islamic Community National View (IGMG), one of Germany’s largest Muslim-Turkish...

The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) will host an international conference at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City on Feb. 8 and 9. The two-day conference, with the participation of world renowned scholars, UN envoys, activists and refugees, will call for accountability and...

Thousands of citizens of Serbia gathered for the ninth time in row in the capital Belgrade to protest the government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators went down the streets of the capital to express their dissatisfaction under the slogan "One in five million". The so-called “1 of 5...

Demonstrations have taken place outside the headquarters of the BBC in London, criticizing the broadcasting company for unfairly covering the political crisis unfolding in Venezuela. The demonstration on Saturday was organized by the Revolutionary Communist Group that campaigns against...

British MPs on Saturday said they were "deeply troubled" by reports that Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is cancelling plans to build its X-Trail SUV in Britain despite Brexit assurances from the government. Nissan is set to announce on Monday that it has changed plans to build the vehicle...

Colombia's armed forces clashed Saturday with FARC dissident rebels, killing 10 from the group that split from the 2016 peace process. Army special forces and police launched an operation in Caqueta department, in which a longtime group leader Rodrigo Cadete, 52, was killed. "Another...

The US scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia could launch a new arms race, but will also allow the United States to update its nuclear arsenal, a publicly stated goal for the past year. President Donald Trump announced Friday the US was suspending its...

Nayib Bukele is favorite to win when voters head to the polls in El Salvador on Sunday to elect a new president they hope will lead them away from gang violence and widespread poverty. The 37-year-old former mayor of the capital San Salvador is hoping to usher in a new era after almost 30...

It's a dilemma for European telecoms firms: Should they steal a march on competitors and rapidly roll out next-generation 5G mobile networks using equipment from top supplier Huawei? Or should they heed US-led warnings of security threats and sit tight, and possibly fall behind? Getting...

A major shake-up of Australia's massively profitable banking sector is on the cards as a landmark inquiry into abuses in the financial services industry releases its final report Monday. Sweeping legislative and regulatory changes, a crackdown on the bulging pay packets of bankers and even...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice but champions Juventus had to settle for a point as a late Gervinho double snatched a 3-3 draw for promoted Parma in Serie A on Saturday. Juventus' dropped points allowed Napoli to cut the gap on the leaders to nine points after a confident 3-0 win over...

Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic champion Marielle Thompson of Canada and France's Francois Place captured skicross titles Saturday at the World Freestyle Ski and Snowboard Championships. The showdown at the Solitude resort near Park City, Utah, saw Thompson fill one of the few gaps on her...

Germany’s phasing out of coal-fired power stations could be delayed beyond 2038 if the deadline creates problems for the security of electricity supply, a senior legislator in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said. The phase-out, proposed last Saturday by a commission tasked with...

As traditional enterprise companies like IBM, Oracle and SAP  try to transform into more modern cloud companies, they are finding that making that transition, while absolutely necessary, could require difficult adjustments along the way. Just this morning, SAP announced that it was...

Sophomore Tyler Bey was perfect from the field Saturday night, going 9-for-9 and scoring a career-high 27 points as Colorado routed Oregon 73-51 in a Pac-12 Conference mismatch at Boulder, Colo. Bey, whose only misses came at the foul line, where he was 9 of 11, also grabbed 10...

Turns out training a robotic arm to play Jenga is a surprisingly complex task. There are, so to speak, a lot of moving parts. Researchers at MIT are putting a modified ABB IRB 120 to work with the familiar tabletop game, utilizing a soft gripper, force-sensing wrist joint and external camera to...